PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Avocados are a delicate fruit. If you use them right away, they aren't ripe enough. Wait too long and you risk finding brown spots.

Now, there's an app for that.

Oregon State University researchers have developed artificial intelligence that predicts the ripeness and quality of an avocado.

"Avocados are among the most wasted fruits globally due to over-ripeness," OSU Assistant Professor Luyao Ma said in a statement.

Ma said she was also inspired by her frustrations. She frequently makes avocado toast and never knows whether she's cutting into a ripe one or not, she said.

The tool predicts avocado ripeness with a 92% accuracy rate, and internal quality with 84% accuracy, according to an OSU press release. The findings were recently published in the academic jour

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